this is so touching and impressive, what a wonderful development and gives so much hope. alongside genetic and medical research, cybernetics also offer great hope. I applaud this and wish it will go on to bring a new life to people who need it worldwide. truly and incredible advancement!

This just a low resolution beginning. The Argus will get much higher resolutions; stem cell therapies to grow a new retina are in trials both in the US and Europe; and work continues on a shape-compliant bio-silicons electrode that would be put right over the brains surface to feed video directly into the visual cortex. And then the really weird stuff comes into play; contact or implantable lenses with built-in IR, night, or telescopic/microscopic capabilities etc.

What if your brain doesn't support 802.11n or Bluetooth to receive the images?

and surely you'll need to pay yearly subscription fee or the glasses will undergoes reduced functions during grace period and will totaly non-functional if you keep refusing to pay the subcribtion fee !

Most of the devices with cameras are using standard CCD's, meaning either PAL (24 fps) or NTSC (30 fps.) There are also retina mounted self-powered photoelectric sensors that essentially mount an array of tiny solar cells whose output is continuous.